Department of Food Science and
Nutrition
225 FScN
1334 Eckles Avenue
St. Paul, MN
55108
Phone: 612-624-1290
Fax: 612-625-5272
News and Events
Congratulations to Josephine Charve
(11/19/09) Josephine Charve, a Food Science graduate student, has been selected as a finalist for the American Chemical Society Graduate Student Symposium during the ACS National Meeting this spring.
Upcoming LifeScience Alley Conference
On Wednesday December 9th, the LifeScience Alley Conference will host its 8th annual Conference and Expo at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Four of the seven tracks within the conference are related to food science and nutrition: food and nutrition, convergence in disease management, biologics and pharmaceuticals, and regulatory and policy. For further details, visit the conference website at http://www.lifesciencealleyconference.org.
FScN Annual Brief
(11/03/09) The 2008-2009 Food Science and Nutrition Annual Brief is now available. For more information, view the brief.
Congratulations to Sabrina Peterson!
(11/02/09) Sabrina Peterson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, received a National Institutes of Health K07 grant for approximately $750,000 over 5 years. The title of the project is "Development of a Biomarker for Dietary Furanocoumarins".
Food Science Students Highlighted in Compatible Technology International
(11/02/09) Five Food Science students were highlighted in the Compatible Technology International (CTI) October 2009 Post Harvest newsletter. As was recently announced, at an international conference of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), five University of Minnesota students, Wilfredo Dominguez, Eric Hedstrand, Sravanthi Priya Malaypally, Wynnie Margatan and Heather Taterka won the prestigious Developing Solutions for Developing Countries Award from the IFT. There was a small monetary award that went with the prestige. These students, over the period of their involvement with CTI's technologies, had come to believe in the CTI Mission. They therefore decided to donate to CTI a portion of their winnings. CTI was most impressed with the generosity!
Henderson Lecture
(10/20/09) Dr. Hei Sook Sul, from the University of California-Berkeley, recently presented the annual Henderson lecture: “Transcriptional Regulation of Lipogenic genes by insulin: the role of DNA-PK.” To view the presentation: https://umconnect.umn.edu/r16256040/.